You chained my forefathers for being Black,
You enslaved my ancestors for what you lack.
You envied their members, their shape, their size,
Which made you feel lesser, lacking in pride.
As an admittance of feeling inferior,
You severed their genitals to feel superior.
You separated families, man, woman, child,
They cried, they bled, they died, you smiled.
For millions of servants, no escape,
You lied, you beat, you tarred, you raped.
You weren’t alone in wielding atrocities,
Perpetrating evil from across raging seas,
Brutality also reigned in God’s name,
From ministries spouting spiritual domains,
Of discourse, practise, community, institution,
Churches took part for a financial contribution.
Owning human chattel, their pockets weighed deep,
As the flesh of the captured were maimed and fleeced.
British royalty played an imperative hand,
In slave ownership and robbing wealth from the land.
Shall we take revenge? Is that what you fear?
Is that why black men, even today, you revere?
Not just for bedding your women with their charms,
Are you scared they will one day gather up arms?
Do you imagine being taken one by one,
Export you to where their forefathers came from?
Envisage if this was done by force,
Subjugate whites, east, west, south and north.
Haul them to Africa by ocean in a boat,
Deny them liberty and a right to vote,
Carry them across waters packed like sardines,
Feed them rotten food and water from the seas.
If they request more sustenance, typical, it’s greed.
Beat them; tend not to wounds if they bleed.